Jon Rahm carded a final round 62 to reach 25-under and win the acciona Open de España by six shots.
“My lowest round, my lowest score out here, it was pretty much a perfect week and the only thing that would make it better was if my wife and kids were here. It was the first one, the newest one with Eneko so I’m glad that’s it’s certainly after each kid that I’ve won a tournament, but I have a lot of family here I don’t see throughout the year.”
The Spaniard has now won his national Open three times, matching Seve Ballesteros.
“It was the goal coming in; Seve is a great hero of mine and to do something he took his whole career to do in just a few years is quite humbling.
“It’s emotional. Going up the 18th hole I knew what was about to happen and to get it done like that, I can’t describe it.”
“He (Seve) wasn’t really somebody I really thought of that much until I got better at golf, because obviously I wasn’t good until I was like 13 or 14 and when I started getting better, I learned a lot about him and what he did.
“I’ve spoken many times about how that 1997 Ryder Cup and Seve making the win that week, some friends of my dad’s started me playing golf otherwise who knows what else I’d be and I’m here because of that alone, and everything else is down to the path that he’s paved for so many of us.”
France‘s Matthieu Pavon closed with a bogey-free 65 to finish second at 19-under followed by Australian Min Woo Lee in third at 18-under after a final round 68.
South Africa‘s Zander Lombard shot 67 for a share of fourth place at 16-under alongside a bogey-free Edoardo Molinari of Italy who shot 67.
